Jeff VanderMeer, who I guess gets the thoughtless "you must hate adventure fiction, being the Apostle of Literary Fantasy and all" treatment one too many times, has explained that it is indeed possible for a reader (or writer, or editor, or whoever) to like different things for different reasons.

This will apparently come as a shock to some people, but I hope their hearts can take it.

Speaking as someone who argued back-and-forth with Jeff -- in a friendly manner -- about a whole lot of fantasy stories last year when we were both World Fantasy judges, I can vouch that Jeff's tastes are not narrow or circumscribed by some notion of genre purity.

Actually, I'll go further: anybody who's at all interesting to talk with about stories can't have an attitude like the one Jeff's describing. Ideological purity, of any kind, is death to useful discourse. And good stuff must be taken where you find it -- so the more places you're willing to look, the more of it you will find.